>So fast it it appears invisible or as though it is in multiple places at once
>Natural weapons slice through any material
>Not harmed by conventional weaponry
>Can destroy souls
Oh, also:
>Can instantly teleport any distance
>Can time travel
How would The Shrike fare in the 40k universe?
I'm positive we've had this thread before, and the consensus is it would fuck everything up apart from the warp, and maybe some Necron stuff
ALL CONTACT is LOST with HIVE-CITY OMEGA, as a FEARSOME XENOS ASSASSIN stalks the OUTER DARK. A KILL TEAM of DEATHWATCH SPACE MARINES has been dispatched, under the guidance of INQUISITOR CALIBAN, to track down this LETHAL KILLER.
But are they the HUNTERS...Or the HUNTED?
DEATHWATCH: WHO HUNTS THE HUNTERS?
A DEATHWATCH NOVEL set in the GRIM GOTHIC UNIVERSE of WARHAMMER 40,000, from DAN ABNETT.
It kills a lot of them, but the Deathwatch Librarian paralyzes it with a psychic probe, and the Shrike is killed when it's stabbed with it's own claw.
For even greater fuckery, it turns out that the distress signal was sent by the team from an alternate future where they were all killed by the Shrike.
Actually, what happened was:
>Shrike dies
>Continues to exist in the future where it has not yet been killed and wreaks havoc for another 30 years
No, no, you see - The whole story occurred because the Shrike killed them the first time. However, before the Inquisitor died, he sent a message back into the past informing himself of what had to happen.
Unfortunately, he had to keep the timeline consistent, so he STILL had to die and send the same message back. The trick was, however, to make him think that the Deathwatch had died - The Librarian and the toughest Battle-Brother surprise the Shrike, and they catch it off-guard as it kills the Inquisitor.
The thing is, the Shrike can't out-race psyker attacks once the psyker is attuned the right frequency, so it's 'fixed' in place by the Librarian and summarily destroyed, whereupon it explodes into a puff of logic.
The two survivors go home, wondering what the fuck was all that about.
>sent a message back into the past
I don't think that technology exists
>had to keep the timeline consistent, so he STILL had to die and send the same message back
Shrike is not bound to this "linear time travel" you seem to be imposing. In between the Inquisitor dying and sending a message, The Shrike has existed for 10,000 million years in the space of 3 seconds, systematically murdering entire solar systems. Also:
>catching the shrike off guard
C'mon. Space Marine's are good, but they can't react at light speed or even damage The Shrike's armour with their arsenal. You would need an entire army directed at where The Shrike might appear.
Obviously there's a lot of factors to make this is a viable story. Hive Omega is near the Eye of Terror, so the properties of space and time are unusual - the final battle takes place amid the great reactors of the Hive, which further disrupt temporal fuckery, and the Space Marines pull off various tricks and strategems to damage the Shrike before it rears up, Terminator-style, for the final confrontation.
Have you never seen Predator or a horror movie before? It's basically that. Obviously the Space Marines have to get their licks in, too, or there's no story. More, the Shrike isn't immune to psychic assaults.
Also, the speed of thought is faster than lightspeed.
That's all well and good, but can The Shrike see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
Don't forget that in order to end up in 40K, the Shrike must have been flung through the Warp and survived re-entry. That would take the juice out of anyone.
SHRIKEFAGS ABSOLUTELY BTFO
Ok, so far you have justified sending a message back in time by undetermined, but pretty justifiable means, given how lazy GW are with explaining the more magical elements of their setting. The rest of your post is begging for mercy (of which The Shrike does not possess) because you're trying to write fan-fiction. Tap-out user, your rag-tag group of marines are going to adorn my Tree of Pain Forever.
The Shrike has no need for such information.
The Shrike does not need rest.
>The Speed of Thought is faster than lightspeed
No it isn't. The speed of thought is the speed of electrical impulses travelling along nerves and neurons, which absolutely isn't faster than lightspeed.
Is the Shrike ever beaten?
Can the Shrike get laid?
Hard to say. It appears to be vanquished, though whether that is part of of some greater purpose isn't explained as its later actions almost seem to directly contradict what its apparent motive could be.
The Shrike has rejected physical intimacy. Why do you think it is so powerful?
Yes, but in doing so it technically succeeds in its mission. The one we saw in the story is, terrifyingly enough, a grunt unit in the future. Sent back in time to pursue what is essentially a hyperevolved godlike superintelligence that has fled the conflict.
The godlike thing essentially turns it to stone to defend its host, but in doing so has revealed its presence in the timeline.
So you need a deus ex machina to beat it.
I see, in that case Tzeentch might beat it by trapping it inside his labyrinth.
Since the warp is outside of time or something, the shrikes time ability only has it put back inside the maze.
That sounds plausible right?
I mean, I guess. "Tzeentch does some bullshit" is sort of the ultimate handwave for the defeat of anything, since it doesnt have to make sense because 'lololol chaos magick'.
The Shrike's ability to time travel and teleport has to do with its own ability to manipulate space time/warp powers. It basically melds itself into the fabric of reality and freely moves about. Tzeentch could probably just outsmart The Shrike but nobody would be able to explain how or why. Actually, maybe The Shrikes own mystery and lack of motive would work in its favou here.
The Shrike's reaction times are... bullshit fast, Like, in the time it takes for a brain synapse to fire the Shrike will have already minced up every loyalist and traiter marine across the galaxy into into a collection of minced atoms sorted by periodic values.
The Shrike's whatever the fuck it wants.
No, Kassad doesn't kill it. The Shrike WRECKS him. Then Moneta steps in (she's like the Shrike's helper), starts screwing with time, and Kassad is able to chase it around to different times and planets and stuff. Finally they wind up on a battlefield in the far, far future where there's thousands of Shrikes and thousands of people like Moneta able to bend time. Eventually Kassad kills it with the help of an unknown future human/ouster time army.
Then they implant Kassad's consciousness into the Shrike and that creates a whole new timeline, so who even knows.
because they're full of sugar and children love things that taste sweet.
Come on, that is easy.
Yeah, but I don't think the Shrike would figure that out.
He'd just start impaling cereal mascots on spikes in the hopes that the answer would reveal itself.
Fuck, why am I not a speed god then?
Ok, could the Shrike beat Gaston at anything? Remember, no one's quick as Gaston!